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i can't stop drawing comfystarions 🥺

#astarion #batstarion #the life he deserves <3

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GALE????

#gale #he really would #pathetic wet cat man /pos

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(Jasper is a snarky drow wild-magic sorcerer/multiclassed rogue. He was pretty careless about his magic until meeting Gale, and his solutions to things still mostly ends up being ‘is it worth lockpicking, or should we just explode it and run?’ He’s closed-off and snippy with people he doesn’t know, but longs for connection at heart. It just… takes a while to get there. He’s quite awkward when he’s actually being open with people. When the two of them are alone, it’s one of the few times Jasper actually is fully himself.

Jasper is illiterate; never learned to read, but ‘begrudgingly’ lets Gale teach him slowly after the events of the game. Still not great, but getting there. While they do live together, Jasper still takes trips to the Underdark every now and again. This letter was written during one of his times there.)

Gale, hello.

(The handwriting drastically changes. While the above line is practically intended into the paper, the rest is written in neat cursive.)

The rest of this letter is being transcribed by Astarion because I don’t feel like sending you something that could be mistaken for a toddler’s journal. Then again, that’s what your handwriting can look like sometimes if you’re tired enough, so maybe you’d find it readable anyway.

What do people even write in letters, anyway? Hello, dearest Gale of Waterdeep, how farest thou in my absence? Psh, he’d laugh at that. He’s cute when he- wait, don’t write that down- hey, give me the-

(There’s some illegible scribbling after that.)

Anyway, Gale. How are your bookshelves? They’re probably dusty. You should dust them.

Did you eat food today? It’s dinnertime. It won’t be when you get this, though, I guess. Hm.

Ok, seriously, what am I supposed to say? Astarion note: He rambled for about five minutes about the uselessness of letters and small talk, darling, I’m not writing all of this down. He misses you, you’re both pathetically in love, it’s absolutely sickening, get a room.

Oh, right. Some of the mushroom people myconids gave me some stuff to bring back to you. I didn’t really stay long enough to figure out exactly what it all is since the whole mind speaking thing makes me nauseous, but there’s some amulet and a couple scrolls.

I also have not blown anything up yet. On purpose. Two explosive surges happened. Whether that’s good or bad is up for debate. There aren’t any of the explodey mushrooms around where I’m staying.

Pet Tara for me.

And if you look like you’ve pulled even one all-nighter when I get back, I’m dragging you to bed. Put your books down and go to sleep, wizard.

~ Jasper

(The name is signed in the same poor handwriting as the greeting)

P.S. Hello. Astarion again, absolute pleasure. Next time, send a scribe with him if you want to be penpals, or I’m going to start charging.

Sweet Jasper,

And Astarion, by default.

No matter the transcriber, you know I adore hearing from you. I’d spend countless nights decoding your handwriting if it meant our communication stayed strong during your nights away. And, for the record, I’m glad you think I’m cute when I laugh. You’re rather adorable when you laugh, too.

I have cleaned the tower in your absence, but it’s quickly returned to dust-filled madness since beginning a new project of mine. No matter, though, it’ll be spotless by the time you return. You’ll be happy to know I’m eating just fine, and Tara can vouch for me on such. She’d have a field day if I didn’t stop and have a meal now and then, no matter how deep I was into a tome.

Thank the Myconids for me. Their scrolls have proved to be rather helpful lately. It’s always a joy to receive new items from them. And, I am glad to hear you’ve not yet blown anything, or anyone for that matter, up! I would hate to have another incident occur and use all of our resurrection spells again. Those are pricey and hard to come by nowadays. Stay strong, darling, I know how much you desire to set fire to things.

I cannot guarantee the state of myself when you return. I’m awfully invested in my current tomes and you know how much I hate losing my place. But I will try, dear.

Enough about me. How are you? I hope your time in the Underdark is serving you well. Have you found anything of interest? I’ll be more than delighted to hear all about your adventure when you return home. The nights grow cold without you by my side, love. But I know how much your journey means to you.

I hope you’re eating well, also. Sleeping just as much, too. Send word when you aim to return home, I’ll have everything ready for you.

Be safe, my love. I hope to hear from you again, soon.

With all my love,

𝑮𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒌𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒔

Astarion, I thank you for your hard work with Jasper. You know the depths of my coin pouch. Name your price, though not too substantial- I’m not made of money, after all. But, I’d much rather you than a stranger scribe for him.

text reads: gale dekarios

#jasper #gale #tav #oc #I LOVE THIS SM OP <333 #all of your letters are so beautifully written #tysm for blessing me with this 🙏🙏

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Thinking abt devil wyll with a tail not realizing how expressive tails are and not really controlling his own + karlach commenting and acting based on it because she assumed he knows. wyll wagging when hes with tav and karlach looks at him like the homophobic dog I know what you are style. stepping in for him in a situation when she notices him tucking his tail in between his legs. he’s convinced she has some insane insight for a while because she keeps reading him like an open book then when he asks her about it once she’s like wyll your tail . you’re the easiest person to read I ever met since youve got that thing. cue a humiliation constitution check

#wyll #karlach #THIS LMAO

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Gale, sheepishly returning a book to Wyll: Sorry, thought this was The ANNALS of Karsus. My mistake.

Gale: An excellent read, though.

#gale #wyll #this is so much worse because this is exactly where my mind went whenever he talked about the annals of Karsus

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"It's only-"

#astarion #wyll #wyllstarion #OUCHHHHHHH

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Me, explaining the steel foundry fight to my dad: so I have to fight medieval Elon Musk, right? But in order to do that, I first have to take down Ye Olde Tesla.

#gortash #MEDIEVAL ELON MUSK SOBBING

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My take on that one bg3 meme 🩸

ps. Prints here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/cynotherium/gaslight-gatekeep-girlboss/

#orin #ketheric #gortash #gaslight gatekeep gortash

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just discovered something really good

#astarion #OH MY GOD

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♻️

#halsin

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A kitten at heart

#gale #tara

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How about a Durge with some artistic ability filling up a sketchbook with etchings of faces they only vaguely remember in their mind's eye. Entire pages of a pale woman with milky eyes, long hair and a manic grin splattered in blood, an older elf with tired eyes and sad faraway expression...

Maybe next to portraits of past victims they're overcome by muscle memory and write down notes pertaining to vivisections and cruel experiments half remembered. They hold out a hand, reverting to what must have been habit before their loss of memory, expecting to have their pen taken and replaced by a sharpened scalpel by the clawed green hand of their butler.

When doing a hand study they realise they're drawing a specific pair, strong and scarred and adorned with a gilded gauntlet. It brings up a memory of being held tight and securely as those same hands print themselves across their body in congealing blood and black engine grease — a mess that was getting all over the workshop table, staining the schematics for his tin soldiers. A name sits heavily on the tip of their tongue and a horrible feeling of homesickness overtakes them, quickly followed by unexplained guilt and paranoia.

The need to ask forgiveness nags at the back of their mind for the rest of the day.

#durge #gortash #durgetash

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this is best part of being a druid romancing Halsin

HELLO?

#halsin #HELPPPP OH MY GOD 😭😭😭

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Typical breakfast conversation is Gortash fishing out the mornings newspapers and reading the names from the obituary.

Durge just immediately responds: yes, no, no, yes, yes, yes, maybe, to the ones they have & haven’t killed.

Gortash doesn’t even need to ask they just do it automatically based off this sort of unhinged energy they have.

#gortash #durge #durgetash #this is peak comedy

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"hunger."

literally how i see it when ppl romance Durge with Gale

#gale #durge

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A thing about Astarion I don't see talked about very often is that my good time boy cannot executive function. If you ask him to elaborate on any plan he goes, uh i dont knoooooow stop asking. He has been winging it since before you were born and he doesn't intend change now. Wouldn't know a step 2 if he met one. Any plan he has is just to show up and see what happens.

#astarion

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astarion ending board! inspired by that one screenshot where astarion goes to hide after getting burnt by the sun

#what SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED #astarion #this absolutely slaps op